Any Formula 1 Fans there????

[ycr007]

Now Why Did'nt Michelin Think of this All the Time they Were Practicing on Friday!!!

coz, u aren't yet working for them...

Awww....Come On........This Analysis was Not Mine.I Lifted it From an F1 Site

[CtrlAltDel]

Now Why Did'nt Michelin Think of this All the Time they Were Practicing on Friday!!!

coz, u aren't yet working for them...

Awww....Come On........This Analysis was Not Mine.I Lifted it From an F1 Site

well...at least u researched....the honchos of Michelin didnt...

[akhilis2cool]

Now Why Did'nt Michelin Think of this All the Time they Were Practicing on Friday!!!

coz, u aren't yet working for them...

Awww....Come On........This Analysis was Not Mine.I Lifted it From an F1 Site

well...at least u researched....the honchos of Michelin didnt...

Yeh they shd. have known abt. this thing before hand. Till they noticed that the tyres were the wrong ones it was too late...

[ycr007]

Now Why Did'nt Michelin Think of this All the Time they Were Practicing on Friday!!!

coz, u aren't yet working for them...

Awww....Come On........This Analysis was Not Mine.I Lifted it From an F1 Site

well...at least u researched....the honchos of Michelin didnt...

Yeh they shd. have known abt. this thing before hand. Till they noticed that the tyres were the wrong ones it was too late...

The Problem with Michelin is that they have very less experience of Racing in america as Compared to Bridgestone.And while they have been racing there since 2001,it was only this year that the Track Surface was Relaid thus making the Turn 13 more abrasive and hence,fatal to the tyres.Michelin Realised it only on the Friday Practice & When Ralg Crashed out.They Flew another set of Tyres from France but they too were not Stable.Hence they Recommended the Teams not to Race.

[rock_26iin]

I agree with ycr. It was poor sportsmanship shown by the Ferrari team on the track. They could've allowed them to insert the chicane, we'd at least have a frikkin race instead of 6 cars going around on a merry-go-round

[SeH]

Now Why Did'nt Michelin Think of this All the Time they Were Practicing on Friday!!!

coz, u aren't yet working for them...

Awww....Come On........This Analysis was Not Mine.I Lifted it From an F1 Site

well...at least u researched....the honchos of Michelin didnt...

Yeh they shd. have known abt. this thing before hand. Till they noticed that the tyres were the wrong ones it was too late...

The Problem with Michelin is that they have very less experience of Racing in america as Compared to Bridgestone.And while they have been racing there since 2001,it was only this year that the Track Surface was Relaid thus making the Turn 13 more abrasive and hence,fatal to the tyres.Michelin Realised it only on the Friday Practice & When Ralg Crashed out.They Flew another set of Tyres from France but they too were not Stable.Hence they Recommended the Teams not to Race.

To the best of my knowledge the tyres never flew from France, Michelin never had a backup tyre set which Bridgestone had. Shudnt have Michelin raced with a lower speed. This is a professional race and lowering the speed using a chicane is like giving handicap points in Table Tennis or Carroms which is ridiculous. Though not a regular follower of F-1 this is wat I felt.

[ycr007]

[rock_26iin]

lol, good 1 ycr

[akhilis2cool]

good kartoon man...

[ycr007]

Me a Good Artist or wat

[akhilis2cool]

Me a Good Artist or wat

shameless false self promotion, i say

[ycr007]

Me a Good Artist or wat

shameless false self promotion, i say

Sigh!!! Some Artists Never Get the Appreciation They Deserve.......

[akhilis2cool]

Me a Good Artist or wat

shameless false self promotion, i say

Sigh!!! Some Artists Never Get the Appreciation They Deserve.......

kya karna bhai bhalai ka zamanaich nai raha

[vivek]

Something that we regularly do. A pre-race analysis.









Track Length: 4.411 Km

Total Race Distance: 308.586 Km’s

Number of laps: 70 Laps

Best Lap: Michael Schumacher (Ferrari-2004) 1m 15.377s

2003 Pole: Fernando Alonso (Renaults-2004) 1m 13.698s



This track was built in 1960 by Jean Berniguad, the then mayor of Magny-Cours near his farmland, 10 km southeast of the Nevers village. This was a very short track of only 1.94 Km in length, which was later used by a school started by Berniguad in 1963. Many local and national level motor racing championships were held till 1969, when the need of expansion of this circuit bought major changes to this track. The new track was opened in 1971 but was taken by the local motor club- ASA Nivernais soon after the death of Berniguad in November 1971. The new track was heavily modified; it was built by interconnecting 2 tracks, which would otherwise run independently. The inner circuit was of 1.72 Km while the outer track was of 2.6 Km in length. A couple of years later, international motor racing competitions started pouring in this part of the France with European Formula 3 racing taking the major share.



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[vivek]

This track is located near Northampton, 90 kms northwest of London. First Formula 1 championship was held here in 1950. This year will be its 39th hosting of an f1 event. It was modified a number of times, the first being in the year 1979 following a major accident. Following this accident the dangerous Woodcote area saw an introduction of a chicane that would slow down the speeds in that corner, but soon after 8 years, a complex replaced the same area. It was again modified many times with 1991 and 1994 bringing some major changes to this track.



This track holds a specialty in whole of formula 1 history. The back markers are positioned around a corner during the start of the race and cannot see the start lights going off. Also it is known for its technical nature as it has a combination of almost all kinds of fast, medium fast & slow curves and bends with slow hairpin turns. Hence a lot of downforce is required in order to get some grip, which can be achieved by lowering the car level but only to a certain level as this track has some uneven bumps in many sections of the track.



More here

[akhilis2cool]

the circuit seems to have a good balance of turns and straight roads....we can expect a good race i guess.

[SeH]

Turkey makes its debut on the Formula One calendar in 2005 with an all-new purpose-built circuit in Istanbul. The spectacular 5.378 kilometre track is designed by famed German architect Hermann Tilke, the man behind Sepang, Bahrain and Shanghai, and features 14 turns - eight lefts and six rights - with the cars expected to reach speeds of up to 320 kph.



An unusual feature of the venue is that the lap runs anti-clockwise, making the Turkish Grand Prix only the third race on the calendar to do so (San Marino and Brazil are the other two). It possesses a wide variety of corners, and while perhaps not as technical as, say, Shanghai, it should definitely provide the drivers with real challenge, especially given the reduced downforce available in 2005.



The character of the circuit should be further enhanced by plenty of gradients - the track is built on four different ground levels. There look to be fewer obvious overtaking opportunities than at some other Tilke circuits - it doesn't feature the long straights followed by tight hairpins that characterise the likes of Sepang and Shanghai - but no doubt the drivers will find plenty of their own once they get used to the track.



As you'd expect from a new venue, spectator facilities should be impressive - organisers know they have to rival the very high standards set by Bahrain and China in 2004. Seating capacity is around 130,000, with 25,000 of those in the main grandstand, and parking is available for 12,000 cars. Dominating the circuit's skyline are two seven-floor VIP towers at either end of the paddock.



Raikkonen can make Alonso sweat in Turkey.

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http://www.samachar.com/sports/fullstory.html

[talking]

mee the fan of ralf

[SeH]

mee the fan of ralf

It was yrs when people thot Ralf would take over the reins for Micheal when he retired (he made a comeback later)..... but it still remains a dream... I am a Renault fan.....

[ycr007]

The First Ever Turkish Grand Prix Will be Led By the Man-of-the-Moment Kimi Raikkonen.And Guess Who Will be the last off the Grid?? Michael Schumacher



The Qualifying Results:

Raikkonen wins the day

Kimi Raikkonen gave notice that he is still the man to be feared as he set the fastest time in qualifying for the Turkish Grand Prix. The Finn put his McLaren on pole, beating the two Renaults of Giancarlo Fisichella and Fernando Alonso, although the biggest challenge should have come from Jenson Button but a mistake in the mid-section left the British driver scrabbling around in 13th place, which will mean that he is going to have a tough race. It was a second disappointment for BAR-Honda as Takuma Sato had previously made a similar mistake, which dumped him down to 14th position. Worse still, Takuma then trailed round on his slowing down lap and got in the way of Mark Webber's Williams-BMW, which lost the Australian an appreciable amount of time. The team was unable to warn Sato because the Japanese driver was driving around with the transmit button depressed, which meant that the team's warnings could not be heard. Sato ended the session under investigation by the stewards and may end up at the back of the grid, something which will do nothing for his future career with the team.

It was a day full of mistakes and those who made it through without making a mess of things were the ones to prosper. Juan Pablo Montoya had to run early in the session because of his retirement in Hungary but he drove a sensible lap and was able to take fourth on the grid, just three-tenths behind the two Renaults and six-tenths behind Raikkonen. In the race he is sure to be quick.

Fifth fastest was Jarno Trulli in his Toyota, ahead of the two Williams-BMWs of Nick Heidfeld and Mark Webber, the Australian irritated about Sato. With the incident Webber might have been able to mix it with the really quick guys.

Felipe Massa did a good lap to line up eighth, despite running early in the qualifying session. The new Ferrari driver did much better than his team mate Jacques Villeneuve who made a mess of things by spinning on his qualifying run, which means that he will be starting down at the tail of the field.

Ralf Schumacher did a workmanlike job to take ninth in his Toyota ahead of Christian Klien's Red Bull and Rubens Barrichello in his Ferrari. Barrichello's position was more down to his lack of mistakes than his pace as the Ferraris are completely off the pace this weekend. Michael Schumacher tried to muscle his car to a better grid position and ended up spinning out and so will start down at the back.

David Coulthard was 12th, having been the first man to run, following the Red Bull debacle in Hungary.

Tiago Monteiro was once again fastest of the backmarkers with a time which was well clear of that achieved by Christijan Albers in his Minardi.

Robert Doornbos and Narain Karthikeyan did not record times because of technical problems. With Villeneuve and Schumacher both spinning and Sato expecting a penalty, the back end of the grid will be lively in the first few laps.

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[SeH]

Raikkonen does it again in Turkey


But Alonso steals second to dampen McLaren's day



Juan Pablo Montoya, meanwhile, set the fastest lap of the race, but that was the only satisfaction the Colombian could draw as his team mate pulverised him in a head-to-head battle, and he then lost an easy second place with an error just two laps from home.



Raikkonen had grabbed the lead back from fast-starting Giancarlo Fisichella on the opening lap and thereafter never surrendered it. Montoya, meanwhile, fought his way past the Renaults of Fisichella and Fernando Alonso after stopping later than them for his first slug of fuel on lap 21. But then he was delayed slightly as he ran over his refueller’s legs when the nozzle proved reluctant to disengage. He still rejoined before Alonso appeared, however, and from that point on McLaren’s first 1-2 of the season - their first in five years - seemed set in stone.



Raikkonen’s stop on lap 22 went like clockwork, and their second stops - on lap 41 for Montoya and 45 for Raikkonen - were equally undramatic. But then came an incident on lap 55 when Montoya lapped Tiago Monteiro going into Turn 12. The Portuguese driver found his road suddenly full of hard-braking McLaren, and locked his front wheels in a vain effort to avoid contact. Montoya was tapped into a spin and his McLaren’s diffuser was damaged. Having been eight seconds clear of Alonso, the Colombian now found his advantage reduced to only 1.5s. As he pushed to maintain that in response to the Spaniard’s renewed challenge, the combination of that and the damaged diffuser saw him run wide in the notorious Turn 8, and suddenly Ron Dennis saw 18 points become only 16 as Alonso gratefully sped by into second place. Not surprisingly, there was an atmosphere later in the McLaren camp despite Raikkonen’s dominant success which left the score in the drivers’ championship battle as Alonso 95, Raikkonen 71 with five races left. In the constructors’ series, McLaren are nine points behind Renault, whereas they could have been within five.



Apart from these dramas, it was a relatively quiet race after the early skirmishes. The first of these accounted for Felipe Massa, who tried unsuccessfully to go down the inside of former team mate Nick Heidfeld and got his front wing chopped off for his troubles. As it tucked under the car the Sauber skated wide, delaying team mate Jacques Villeneuve and Toyota’s Ralf Schumacher, damaging a turning vane on the C24.



Meanwhile, Jenson Button was busy working his way up from 13th place on the grid and a “terrible start”, passing both Ferraris between laps two and four, then displacing the two Red Bulls of, first, David Coulthard and then Christian Klien, by lap 10. That set him up for an eventually successful chase of Jarno Trulli, whom he overtook for fifth place after the Italian’s second stop on lap 43. By the flag Button was within striking distance of Fisichella, who had lost 10 seconds to Alonso during a delay with his fuel rig in his first pit stop on the 14th lap. Trulli clung on for sixth ahead of the Red Bulls, with Coulthard gaining the upper hand over his Austrian partner when they refuelled on the 23rd and 24th laps.



A spirited drive from a pit-road start to ninth marked Takuma Sato’s one-stop afternoon, while Rubens Barrichello’s 10th place was the best Ferrari could muster. Michael Schumacher had an awful afternoon. The champion chased Barrichello until he stopped for the first time on lap 14. Then he was assaulted in Turn 12 a lap later by Mark Webber, whom he had just lapped. There was bad blood between both drivers as a result. The Ferrari spun and pitted again immediately for a fresh left rear tyre. Later he pitted again for the power steering to be replaced, rejoining on the 33rd lap so he could avoid being the first man out for qualifying at Monza.



Villeneuve survived for 11th, keeping Schumacher Jnr at bay, but Massa’s strong and competitive comeback drive ended with engine failure after 28 laps. Robert Doornbos was 13th for Minardi, ahead of the Jordans of Narain Karthikeyan and an unhappy Monteiro, but Christijan Albers’ PS05 failed to go the distance. So did the Williams, both of which suffered two right rear tyre failures, most likely because some part of the car touched the tyre during the loadings of over 4g in Turn 8.



After all the pre-race build-up the first Turkish Grand Prix did indeed prove a real test of man and machine. Kimi Raikkonen was in a class of his own, and whatever the Turks do they must leave Turn 8 exactly as it is, bumps and all. Jacques Villeneuve was right: Formula One racing has found itself another brilliant corner.

[ycr007]

Good Race for Kimi but McLaren could have Done without the JPM Mistake.

Alonso will be Like "Thanks Mate"



I Particularly Liked the way Webber Swatted out MS Like The way he did

[BrownBOy]

that was clearly Schumis fault. Webber's car nose was clearly infront of the scumis rear wheel, schumi should have given him room but he decides to close off the gate !!

[SeH]

Suzuka International Racing Course

One of the greatest tracks used in Formula One today, Japan's Suzuka circuit is a massive test of car and driver ability. Built by Honda as a test facility in 1962, the track was designed by Dutchman John Hugenholz, the Hermann Tilke of his day. A huge theme park was also constructed at the track, including the famous big wheel which dominates the Suzuka skyline.



In 1987, having hosted various sportscar and F2 races, and having lost out initially to Fuji in the race to host the Japanese Grand Prix, Honda's influence finally prevailed and the Grand Prix had a new Japanese home. And at Suzuka the race has stayed, providing the scene for many nail-biting end-of-season deciders, including the infamous collisions involving Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.



Suzuka includes some of the Grand Prix calendar's most challenging corners. Among the drivers' favourites are the high-speed 130R and the famous Spoon Curve. On top of this the circuit's figure-of-eight layout makes it unique in Formula One.



Suzuka is located on Ise Bay on the Island of Honshu, in south-central Japan, about 320km from Tokyo and its New International Narita Airport. Osaka's Kansai Airport (150km east of Suzuka) and Nagoya's International Airport (50km south-west) are both closer to the circuit, though they serve fewer international routes.



By road, Suzuka is approximately 400km from Tokyo and 50km from Nagoya. From Tokyo, take the Tomei Expressway and leave at the Suzuka Interchange. From here, the circuit will be clearly sign-posted. Alternatively, take the Meihan Road and leave at the Kameyama Interchange. Follow signs to National Route 1 and the circuit will be signed.



By train, the nearest station to the Suzuka Circuit is Shiroko, which is a 20-minute walk or a 15-minutes bus ride from the track. An express train from Nagoya to Shiroko takes around 40 minutes.

[ycr007]

Glad you bumped this thread back......



Suzuka's a nice track and the only track to have a cross-over bridge.Me had played a PC game demo on that track and it was pacy.so imagne how the ral one would be!!!



Now that the Drivers' championship has been sealed (FYI, Fernando Alonso Won it,thereby becoming the Toungest Ever F1 Champ and the First ever from Spain)

Though Kimi raikkonen gave him a tough fight towards the past few races,McLaren's Fickle Reliability over the middle-season proved to be their undoing They've got the Fastest car but Renault got the Reliablest.

Now it remains to be seen who wins the Constructors' Championship.Mclaren have a 2 point Advantage over Renault and methinks it would go down to the wire.The 2 ppl who'd have a good deal of work to do in that regard,would be Juan Pablo & Fisichella. With their teammates being consistently on the Podiums,it is their performance that could seal the win.



The Japanese GP is this weekend and I jus' can't wait to see it